I've never been a doubter in evolution, though there were (and are) many details that I was unaware pf. At any case, I will probably now have an easier time if I get into another argument with people who dismiss evolution.

I recently read a book called Self Made Man, a book about men written by a lesbian feminist.

Sounds like a train wreck, right? Well, there's a wrinkle: she passes herself off as a guy to see what it's like to be a man. I'm actually impressed by how honest she is about the different struggles each gender faces, rather than it being male-bashing patriarchy-affirming schlock like most feminist books are. I highly recommend it.

He wouldn't be my favourite author but I always enjoy Feist's books. These two were decent reads overall. I preferred at the gates of darkness although I think A Crown Imperiled was probably the better written book. This is mainly due to a Crown Imperiled not having as much of the over arching rift war plot in it. Can't believe there is only one book left in the series.

Read The Wind Through The Keyhole, thought it was pretty good. Glad the "story within a story within a story" construction didn't turn out to be as confusing as it could have.

Then read Spellbound, the second in Larry Correia's trilogy of superhero noir books. It's been a while since I read the first one, and I don't think he did quite a good enough job of reminding me how things went down in that one, but I still enjoyed the book quite a bit. I've got the third one waiting for me.

I started up again reading Stephen Tobolowsky's book The Dangerous Animals club. It's short stories about his life. So far, the ones I've read are stories that he told on his (excellent) podcast, but that's OK. They're worth reading again.

1984 - A fantastic book that I'm glad I finally read. It's amazing how relevant parts of it are to the modern world. This is not a good thing.The book did have a few faults, though. It became less interesting to me after Winston was caught. The conversation with O'Brien was great until he started sounding like a mad scientist out to take over the world. I'm still not sure which side he was truly on.I also wasn't fond of Julias portrayal. She never gets fleshed out. She's just an arbitrary love interest for Winston without any real story of her own. The way she initially contacted him bothered me the whole book, because it made no sense. She really felt like the 1948 version of a MPDG(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php...).The ending definitely fits the theme of the book, as depressing as it is. But there really was no way this was going to have a happy ending.Anyway, great book, overall. Read it if you haven't.

I'm now reading Sandman Vol. 8: World's End. Brief Lives was fantastic, so I hope the rest of the series maintains that quality.

Slowly making my way through Mistborn book 2. I just got to chapter 21 where

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Cett's daughter beseeches Elend for asylum and seems to have entangled herself with Breeze.

I love the series, but because I don't have large blocks of time to read as I'd like, my ADD leads me to "palate cleanser" quickie books (often in the form of comics or graphic novels) to refresh me back to the epics.

and the Pinkie Pie chapter book. I liked this one because it shed light on Pinkie Pie's backstory and family. I hope they get more screen time in season 4, especially Pinkie's sisters. The book may have been less tightly focused than the Twilight Sparkle book, but I wouldn't expect introspective soliloquies from ADHD Pinkie Pie as I would from the calmer and more objective Twilight Sparkle. Pinkie is my favorite pony and I liked the book (especially with all the pony-fied band names like Nine Inch Tails), but I thought the Twilight book was better.

He acts like he doesn't care. Like everyone is beneath him but you find out later he does care and is often soothing the emotions of his friends to calm them and make them worry less.

I really hope the movies do the books justice. Brandon Sanderson is one of my favorite modern day authors.

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All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and uh why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there and that'll just be our little secret and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you.